January Meeting: "If I Can Do It...You Can Do It: Sometimes Ignorance is Bliss

For the past 20 or so years, Lucinda Sue Crosby has made a good living at and received wide-spread recognition for a slew of word-centric endeavors. From Nashville songwriting to commissioned poetry to journalism to literature to environmental activism to political blogging - all these and more represent hats worn (and juggled) by a story-relishing, word-treasuring author wannabe during those decades. But Lucinda Sue never finished college and never took a writing course. So … how the heck did she DO IT?

Please join this engaging speaker as she dishes the truth about her life-long love affair with the written and spoken word; the constant starting from scratch with each new challenge; her early ignorance and naiveté; her stress-filled deadlines; the treacherous learning curves; the ego smashing lows; the inklings of comprehension and capability; the joys of acknowledgement from self and others; and finally, a willingness to admit, even in public, “I am a writer.”

About this presenter:

Lucinda Sue Crosby is an Amazon bestselling author, an award-winning journalist and environmental activist, a published & recorded Nashville songwriter and a commissioned poet. She is also a long-time Hollywood actress, former professional tennis player and In-Demand tennis commentator for the WTA tour.

Crosby has had a love affair with the written word since she was three years old when she accidentally taught herself to read. Her twin passions for a delicious character-driven story and the power of the written word led her to tackle the array of above-mentioned word-centric genres as well as her currently flourishing literary career, for which she earned selection by TheAuthorShow.com in 2011 as "One of 50 Authors Great You Should be Reading."

Her novel, Francesca of Lost Nation, won five literary prizes and has been a Kindle bestseller.  Highly productive, Crosby has also authored two other Kindle bestsellers: The Adventures of Baylard Bear - a story about being DIFFERENT … a children's fiction with an adoption theme for ages 4 to10 … and $ell more Ebook$ - How to increase sales and Amazon rankings using Kindle Direct Publishing … a book marketing guide for indie authors. Finally, look on Amazon for Crosby’s newest piece – a disturbing extended essay called Water in the West: the scary truth about our most precious resource.

Crosby’s next novel, The Cancer Club – an irreverent tale of survival is based on a true story and scheduled for release in 2014.

Contact person for this meeting:  

Sunny Simon, VP, PSWG Programs,
PROGRAMS.PSWG@GMAIL.COM